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Bible Verses About Hope
Biblical hope is confidence about what God will do, not wishful thinking. Several of these verses were first spoken to people in exile or in mourning, which is when hope matters most.
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
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For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
Spoken to exiles facing a 70-year wait: a promise for the long road.
Jeremiah 29:11Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
A blessing asking God to fill us with joy, peace and hope.
Romans 15:13It is of the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
Mercy that is new every morning, found in the middle of grief.
Lamentations 3:22–23And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
God works all things together for good, even the hard ones.
Romans 8:28But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Those who wait on the Lord get their strength renewed.
Isaiah 40:31And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
Hope that doesn't disappoint, because God's love has been poured into us.
Romans 5:5Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Faith as confidence in what is hoped for and not yet seen.
Hebrews 11:1Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
The psalmist talks back to his own discouragement.
Psalm 42:11For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
Present suffering is small next to the glory to come.
Romans 8:18Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
Hope as an anchor for the soul, sure and steadfast.
Hebrews 6:19And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.
When everything else fails, hope rests in God.
Psalm 39:7Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;
Joyful in hope, patient in trouble, faithful in prayer.
Romans 12:12Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
God promises to do a new thing, a way in the wilderness.
Isaiah 43:19For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.
What you hope for will not be cut off.
Proverbs 23:18I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.
Waiting on God and hoping in his word.
Psalm 130:5And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
The promise of a day with no more tears, death or pain.
Revelation 21:4For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
Weeping may last the night, but joy comes in the morning.
Psalm 30:5Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.
Blessed is the one whose trust and hope is the Lord.
Jeremiah 17:7Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
God will finish the good work he started in you.
Philippians 1:6
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